Some students of class 7th discovered caves on Mars. The 16 students from Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., chose to explore the lava tubes. But as they watched its path intersected with a place, which proved to be a cave. Approximate dimensions of this strange place in the opinion of experts would reach about 190 160 meters (620 x 520 feet) wide and 115 meters (380 feet) deep. Now, the curiosity of many scenarios that will give birth to more or less fanciful, which will include scenarios with aliens … But if you sit and think, such a place can be a good place to be investigated by future manned expeditions. Who knows what we find there?
Yes, it is absolutely real! Sun sing, and these sounds were recorded by scientists from Britain. The harmonies produced by the Sun’s magnetic field were recorded and put on a specialized website. Music is the sun is a beautiful, recalling in particular the guitar strings. Listen and you sun on Staford Solar Center.
A team of scientists from Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has fabricated thin films patterned with large arrays of nanowires and loops that are superconducting — able to carry electric current with no resistance — when cooled below about 30 kelvin (-243 degrees Celsius). Even more interesting, the scientists showed they could change the material’s electrical resistance in an unexpected way by placing the material in an external magnetic field. Read more on sciencedaily.com
Scientists from NASA say that there is life on Titan, Saturn moon. In support of this hypothesis are few measurements made by the Cassini spacecraft, which made an analysis of Titan’s surface. Scientist John Zarnecki of the Open University says it is developing prielice conditions of life, less heat is needed, however. Since the Sun is far away, we are just not conclude the hypothesis that Titan’s interior should provide a minimum temperature for life to start. given the latest information, we can only say that NASA prepares us for a little less formal meetings with grade 3 other more advanced civilizations.
An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of interplanetary travel. The six-member, all-male crew of three Russians, a Frenchman, an Italian-Colombian and a Chinese will follow a tight regimen of experiments and exercise under video surveillance. The Mars-500 experiment — conducted by the Moscow-based Institute for Medical and Biological Problems in cooperation with the European Space Agency and China’s space training center — aims to reproduce the conditions of space travel, with exception of weightlessness. The researchers will communicate with the outside world via the Internet — delayed and occasionally disrupted to imitate the effects of space travel. (AP)
After numerous attempts to communicate with the Phoenix Mars probe, NASA experts said that the craft is a victim of winter on Mars. The craft landed in the northern part of Mars on May 25, 2008 and send signals to Earth until November, when he installed the Martian winter. Any attempt to communicate with Phoenix proved futile, most likely bad weather destroying electronic equipment. Or entered on the line the Martians? What do you think about it?
Ball lightning is a rare circular light phenomenon occurring during thunderstorms. Scientists have been puzzled by the nature of these apparent fire balls for a long time. Now physicists at the University of Innsbruck have calculated that the magnetic field of long lightning strokes may produce the image of luminous shapes, also known as phosphenes, in the brain. This finding may offer an explanation for many ball lightning observations. More on sciencedaily.com
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Using observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton, astronomers have announced a robust detection of a vast reservoir of intergalactic gas about 400 million light years from Earth. This discovery is the strongest evidence yet that the “missing matter” in the nearby Universe is located in an enormous web of hot, diffuse gas. View the full article on Science Daily
The discovery of the Archaeopteryx feathers appears this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers say the sample contains “portions of the feathers are not merely impressions of long-decomposed organic material as was previously believed”. “Instead, they include fossilised fragments of actual feathers containing phosphorous and sulfur, elements that compose modern bird feathers,” write researchers led by geochemist Dr Roy Wogelius of the University of Manchester.
[source: abc.net about dino-bird ]
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British scientists have found five common genetic factors linked to the risk of developing breast cancer, giving researchers a better understanding of its causes and clues for developing more treatments. Douglas Easton from Britain’s University of Cambridge led the largest genome-wide analysis of breast cancer patients to date, scanning the gene maps of 16,536 patients, and found five new common gene variations. The findings add to 13 other common genetic variants for breast cancer and will help explain around 8 percent of the risk of getting the disease, Easton and colleagues wrote in a study published in the journal Nature Genetics on Sunday.
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